Equity Bank Posts Outstanding Performance

Equity Bank Tanzania has posted net profit of 5.03bn/- in the year ended September 2015 compared to 1.52bn/- registered in the previous year. Also; the bank posted 1.14bn/- profit in the quarter ended September 2015 compared to 531m/- posted in the corresponding quarter 2014. Similarly, Equity group holdings limited has posted net profit of 256bn/-

Co-op Bank Partners with SimbaPay for Diaspora Remittances

The Co-operative Bank of Kenya has partnered with SimbaPay, a digital money transfer provider, to offer international money transfer services to the bank’s customers in the Diaspora. Co-operative Bank accounts receiving the funds will be credited instantly. The service is currently available for the UK-Kenya remittance corridor only and will be expanded to cover more countries

CRDB Bank Makes Splendid Performance

CRDB Bank posted a net profit of 38.57bn/- from its operations during the third quarter (July-September) of this year, up from 31.25bn/- recorded at the same period last year. The bank described the performance as historic success. The bank’s cumulative profit for the nine months of this year surpassed the entire net earnings of last

Safaricom Introduces ‘Hakikisha’ Feature to Secure M-Pesa Transactions

Safaricom has introduced a new enhancement to M-PESA that will enable customers confirm the name of the intended recipient of funds, before completing an M-PESA transaction. ‘Hakikisha’ which has been under pilot for the last one month will be rolled out in phases with a view to covering the entire 21.7 million M-PESA customer base

How Kenyan Banks Lost to Mpesa

Mpesa, a wildly successful payment platform contractually licensed to Safaricom, has prospered at the expense of what would have been banking services. Kenya’s banks have taken a back seat as Mpesa leads the payments market. It wasn’t always like this. Over the past decade, mobile financial services evolved, greatly benefiting from an easy to scale

Beyonic Announces Partnership with Mobile Accord to Expand Further into Africa

Beyonic, a technology company that aims to eliminate the rampant use of cash in emerging markets, is announcing a partnership with Mobile Accord that will make Beyonic the largest mobile money aggregator in Africa. Beyonic currently operates in Uganda and Kenya, and will leverage Mobile Accord’s expertise in building mobile solutions and relationships with leading mobile

CRDB Bank Launches Customer Service Week

CRDB Bank has launched customer service week, a special period of year for the bank to meet and get feedback from its customers. During the event, CRDB Bank donated and handed over various medicines and other health facilities worth 15m/- to fight the outbreak of cholera in Kinondoni Municipality in Dar es Salaam. The outbreak

Kenya Commercial Bank and Planet Payment Announce Multi-Currency Processing Agreement

Kenya Commercial Bank (KCB), Eastern Africa’s oldest and largest commercial bank, and Planet Payment, Inc., a leading provider of international and multi-currency transaction services, announced an agreement to launch Pay In Your Currency (PYC), Planet Payment’s dynamic currency conversion solution. This will mark the first launch of dynamic currency conversion in the region. Pay In

Stanbic Relaunches Revamped Mbeya Branch

Stanbic Bank Tanzania has relaunched its revamped branch in Mbeya in line with its mission to offer better services to its customers. “We are pleased to relaunch a revamped branch to the people of Mbeya,” said Ken Cockerill, the CEO of Stanbic Bank Tanzania. “This revamp is part of our broader efforts to modernize our

EMP Processes GTBank Debit and Credit Cards in Kenya

Emerging Markets Payments (EMP), the leading electronic payments processing company in Africa and the Middle East, and Guaranty Trust Bank (GTB) announced a processing partnership for debit and credit cards that has enabled GTBank to launch the first platinum MasterCard Credit Card in Kenya. The launch of GTBank’s Platinum card reflects demand from a growing